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Taming the wildfires: Kore, Tule River in carbon-negative biohydrogen project using California’s deadwood

Taming the wildfires: Kore, Tule River in carbon-negative biohydrogen project using California’s deadwood

July 18, 2023 |

If you haven’t heard about the hot temperatures here on Earth this July, welcome back from your time in outer space. High temperatures tend to scream “forest fires coming!” and “let’s do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions” to most people.  For that reason, it is good news worth sharing that Kore Infrastructure have partnered […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Hydrogen

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Hydrogen

July 17, 2023 |

Here’s the State of Hydrogen presentation from the ABLC CONNECT series episode.The Value Stack, planned capacity, mandates, incentives, major players and their recent activities, pathways, mandates around the world, molecules, and markets. It’s a comprehensive but compact look at the industry in this year of transition from development to deployment.

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Avantium’s advance and the Laws of Corporate Thermodynamics

Avantium’s advance and the Laws of Corporate Thermodynamics

July 17, 2023 |

Avantium advises that their new FDCA plant (based on YXY technology) is 70 percent complete, on track for opening next year. So, t’s time to revisit the progress of this remarkable company and Avantium’s long journey through what some call the Valley of Death but which might be better described as the Universe of Expanding […]

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Energy, Environment, Carbon, Climate, Renewables, EVs….EPA has a Rubiks Cube on their Hands They Don’t Know How to Master.

Energy, Environment, Carbon, Climate, Renewables, EVs….EPA has a Rubiks Cube on their Hands They Don’t Know How to Master.

July 14, 2023 |

By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest The final “set” rule for the volume obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard released recently has sent the biofuel world into a tizzy and once again reveals the Administration’s misguided obsession with EVs and the seeming disdain for biofuels. Let’s get the […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Neste and Fueling a Sustainable alternative for aviation

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Neste and Fueling a Sustainable alternative for aviation

July 13, 2023 |

Michael Sargeant, Vice President, Renewable Aviation Americas at  Neste presented these slides at ABLC 2023 on Neste’s aims and progress to become a global leader in renewable and circular solutions. The world’s only renewable fuels provider with production footprint in three continents: Finland, the Netherlands, Singapore and Martinez (joint venture with Marathon Petroleum), we take […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to BioIndustrial Innovation Canada and the Canadian bioeconomy opportunity

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to BioIndustrial Innovation Canada and the Canadian bioeconomy opportunity

July 12, 2023 |

Meghan Seagrave, executive director of BioIndustrial Innovation Canada, was special guest on REenergize recently, and here are her slides as she takes us through Canada’s opportunities from raw biomass resources to technology, production to policy — what’s happening, what’s next, what’s needed and why.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Oberon Fuels

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Oberon Fuels

July 11, 2023 |

Rebecca Boudreaux, CEO of Oberon Fuels, was special guest this past week on ABLC Connect, and she took us through Oberon’s promise and progress, milestones achieved and the next ones down the road, on the journey from a molecule few ever heard of to production at 200 million gallons later this decade.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Diesel and DME

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Diesel and DME

July 10, 2023 |

Here’s the State of Renewable Diesel and DME presentation from the ABLC CONNECT series episode. The Value Stack, planned capacity, mandates, incentives, major players and their recent activities, pathways, mandates around the world, molecules, and markets. It’s a comprehensive but compact look at the industry in this year of transition from development to deployment.

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The Carbon Dioxide Industry: A Merchant & Sequestration Perspective Today

The Carbon Dioxide Industry: A Merchant & Sequestration Perspective Today

July 10, 2023 |

By Sam A. Rushing, President, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd Special to The Digest The global merchant CO2 industry represents around 22 million metric tons of consumption annually; of which the US is in excess of 40% of this grand total. To follow in tonnage, would be Europe, then Japan. Let’s say the merchant CO2 industry in […]

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The Urgent Need For Ethanol Cooking In Africa

The Urgent Need For Ethanol Cooking In Africa

July 9, 2023 |

By Douglas L. Faulkner, “The Cleantech Conservative” and Gerard J. Ostheimer, PhD Special to the Digest We have argued in the Digest that bio-based fuels, chemicals, and materials ought to be a cornerstone of the modern African economy.   In addition, we recently assisted the Atlantic Council to envision what it is needed for “Building a […]

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